Any sexual relationship between a superior and subordinate is considered sexual harassment because there is no way to determine if the relationship is consensual. It protects the subordinate from predatory acts by the superior against the subordinate under the cover that the relationship is consensual. The subordinate may be threatened to say the act is consual when it it is not.
Read and learn. Stop spreading your ignorance. I have sat through far too many mandatory trainings on this topic. If you think Tailhook was an apples to oranges comparison, you have no idea what you are spewing.
That is not what the law says sorry.
Consent can easily be established by asking if it was consensual.
The law does not allow for guesses about this which is what you are saying. You cannot guess that a person is wrong when they say they gave consent. You have asserted your opinion but not the law and you are wrong.
Tailhook is apples and oranges compared to the Lewinsky affair for many reasons. It was reasonable that Lt. Coughlin was assaulted by someone. But they could not determine who. Since we do not know who it was we have no way of establishing whether it was a superior officer. It does not even compare to Clinton Lewinsky.
Lt. Coughlin was the officer who started the tailhook scandal by promptly reporting her assault. Unfortunately when they were unable to find or identify her attacker it escelated into an insane witch hunt blaming the entire navy and even ultimately the military in general. Yes I was around for it as well and it is not relevant to your argument which is a false claim about what the law says.
It is still against regulationa for people to have sexual relations between subordinates and superiors. But those regulations are not about harrassment.
They are also the most widely and casually ignored regulations in most of the military.
There is no law saying that sex is harrassment even if consent is given and mutual between adults.
You are welcome and have been schooled